From: PRIDE69@aol.com
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 13:09:43 EST
Subject: Notes from Laramie... Judge throws out "gay panic"
Bulletin from Laramie November 1, 1999
Jeffrey Motngomery just called from the Albany County Courthouse in Laramie,
Wyoming where Judge Barton Voigt has disallowed a "rage" defense, effectively
reputiating the "homosexual panic" defense strategy in the Aaron McKinney
trial in the death of Matthew Shepard.
Montgomery says that Voigt's decision is sound and correct based on Wyoming
law. "To have found otherwise", he said, "would have carved out a special,
unique and tailored defense for McKinney. That is not how justice works."